AN EXHIBITION featuring an historic document providing a fascinating insight into life in the region in the 12th Century will be closing early next month.
There is a last chance to see The Boldon Book - A Moment in Time exhibition at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery, ending on Saturday, June 3.
Dubbed the ‘Domesday Book of the North’, The Boldon Book exhibition features a special historical document.
The Boldon Book was compiled as a survey of the lands of the Bishop of Durham and tells of people who lived there, their farms, crops and animals and the work they did for the Bishop.
It includes the earliest survey of the South Tyneside villages of the Boldons, Whitburn and Cleadon. It also gives the names of seven people living in those villages.
To mark 200 years since the first published edition of the Boldon Book was made available in 1816, South Shields Museum & Art Gallery has worked with five local schools and community groups to produce a creative response to the contents of the Boldon Book.
Their work is displayed alongside the fifteenth century manuscript from the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The partners involved in the project are: Age Concern Tyneside South, Arts 4 Wellbeing, Bamburgh School, Boldon School and The Materialistics.
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